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Code Pink in D.C. on Motherâs Day

Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Code Pink. Medea talked about Code Pink and other activists as they prepare for the 24-hour vigil across from the White House and are busily stitching together the thousands of pink and green knit squares sent from all over the world.

Remembering the original Motherâs Day intent for mothers of the world to unite to try to prevent war. She spoke of the emotion of receiving squares from groups like a homeless group in Turkey.

As Julia Ward Howe said, âI will not raise my children to kill another motherâs child.â This segment ended with the Julia Ward Howe Mother's Day Proclamation as presented on Democracy Now.